Victoria Amazonica

A lone flower, the only flower I saw today - the Victoria Amazonica. As I said to my daughter earlier, I am a simple person and I aim to free myself from complicated thoughts and complicated situations. Life in a pond is simple. A bud forms, a flower blooms. It has its glory for a short while and then it fades and disappears into its own reflection. A dragonfly zips by, chooses the flower to rest its tired wings on and flies away. Leaves unfurl, live for some time and then die. Fish swim around the flowers and the leaves. They live. They die. A simple life.

Water Lilies

Fuschia-coloured water lilies stood out amongst the white, the lilac and the pink ones. When I had only half-expected to see flowers in the ponds in the Sundial Garden of the Singapore Botanic Gardens and saw so many of them, it was indeed a blessed morning.

I've never seen water lily leaves like these with the edges of the leaves turned upwards forming heart-shaped dishes.

Water Lilies

Water lily leaves - have you looked at them long enough to notice that they have a beauty of their own?

The flowers that always steal the limelight away from the surroundings.A kid who was immensely engrossed with the swimming carps.